Ratliff on Robin Hood
Former Lt. Governor and sponsor of the original "Robin Hood" school finance plan comments on the old system and future outlook of school funding in Texas. Notably, he says that one fault of the failure of policy is that the state only provides about 37% of the education budget (the rest comes from local taxes and federal support - the latter is about 6-7%). So, the majority of funding now comes from those local taxes and revenue.

Ratliff says that the problem with schools is now more of a money issue rather than reform. A good solution to the revenue problem would be a state income tax, but he realizes that there is NO political viability for such a proposal. Instead, he backs the broad-based business tax.
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